Author Archives: tjscott16

Joan’s first book called Slow Birding was published. Get your copy here. Listen to a podcast she did about the book here.

Trey’s paper showing that pleiotropy is higher in cooperation genes than in non-cooperation genes in P. aeruginosa has been published in PNAS.

In this activity, undergrads had people form hypothesis about different parts of the human microbiome. They then used photos of plates from those microbiomes to get people to test their hypotheses. Below are some sample images and the paper.

Trey Scott and P. M. Shreenidhi presented at Evolution in Cleveland.

Kayla Wallace was awarded the Spector Prize for her senior thesis: Effects of Freshwater Acidification and Parasitism upon Rusty Crayfish Consumption Behaviors. Kayla collected the data for the thesis during an REU at the University of Michigan Biological Station. She … Continue reading →

Current and former lab members have written a paper explaining the D. discoideum lifecycle. This paper is aimed at increasing microbiology knowledge for children. Citation: Strassmann, Joan E., Larsen, Tyler J., Jack, Chandra N., Brock, Debra A., Queller, David C. … Continue reading →

Trey’s paper on context-dependence in the social amoebae-Paraburkholderia symbiosis is now published in Evolution Letters! Trey also wrote a companion blog post about the paper.

Joan and first author Julio Postigo have a new paper in Science that reviews a book on insect agriculture.

Joan’s first book, Slow Birding will be published on October 25.

Postdoc Margaret Steele was awarded the prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Her work will look at interactions between Dictyostelium amoebae and pathogenic bacteria.